Using "autistic" as a derogatory term; please don't

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AngryLittleAlchemist said:

Wow so many forum goers suddenly became literature aficionados in the blink of an eye!

This 1984 comparison is getting really over the top, especially when it's just a forum user asking politely not to use certain words. I'm against censorship and I think this entire thread was a bad idea, I personally don't think we should stop using certain words just because a few forum users dislike it, but this is just getting stupid at this point. Curl isn't an authority figure, and until CGI rules what he and the other mods think should be done we could really use less dramatization of this .... I get that events in the real world with heavy handed "political correctness" might loom over the thread and make it seem worse than it is, but making the situation seem worse than it is won't help.

In my opinion, if calling people racists, sexists, etc. isn't allowed on this site, that calling people autistic should also be forbidden.